Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nasser is also cornered by circumstance. He is reluctant to get too closely tied to the Communists (and has several times in recent weeks cracked down on more conspicuous Communist propaganda efforts), but in his usual self-justifying fashion blames his predicament on the West. He was astonished at the hostile reaction observed when he "Egyptianized'' all foreign business. He thought he was just taking one more step toward purging Egypt of exploiting foreigners, apparently expected British and French investors would still invest in all-Egyptian enterprises-even though posters all over Egypt depict the British and French...
Within a month Chairman Clerides had collected 40 signed complaints of torture during interrogations; he submitted them to the British Governor of Cyprus, Field Marshal Sir John Harding. The British administration brushed off the charges as typical EOKA atrocity propaganda. To show its low regard for the Human Rights Commission, it arrested one of Cyprus' leading lawyers and brought charges against others. But news of the commission's work spread to such influential British newspapers as the Daily Telegraph and the Manchester Guardian. In a House of Commons press conference a fortnight ago, two honorably discharged British soldiers...
...Csepel Island industrial works, famed center of revolt, grimy threadbare workers were responding to the reiterated Communist propaganda that they were agents of the Horthy counterrevolution by addressing each other ironically as Baron, Count and Lord Bishop. It was said that those workers who had remained loyal to the People's Democracy-all six of them-had formed the Kadar government. There were grim jokes about children not getting their milk unless they surrendered their arms...
...boosting a heavy thermonuclear warhead-to a city-sized target 5,000 miles away, and some Air Force groups think that it would be worth doing as a demonstration of U.S. spacemanship. It is probable, however, that space flight will develop through halfway points other than moon shooting for propaganda...
...make love or a piece of change among the ruins. In the wake of World War II armies, he had moved unerringly into the black market up the Italian peninsula into Vienna, but eventually he seemed condemned to living off his wife in London. The need for propaganda ("You just pick it up as you go along, boy") takes him to a last chance in Malaya, where he is supposed to dress up the unprecedented local elections...